by admin | Aug 3, 2014 | General news
We are very pleased to announce our July month end 2014 collection box figures, with £340.78p collected, against £156.75p for July 2013. Our year to date Collection Box total is £1,722.90p compared to £1,509.33p for this time last year. We currently have 123x...
by admin | Aug 3, 2014 | General news
On Thursday 31st July 2014 Team Call out list member, our Treasurer Martin Banks, visited Playdays Nursery, Blackrod to talk about Mountain Rescue, like they have in ‘Fireman Sam.’ Martin, also known as Felicity’s daddy, had been spotted by a worker from his...
by admin | Aug 3, 2014 | 2014, Incident
At 10.36hrs this morning, the team was paged by Greater Manchester Police to recover the body of a male from within Cox Green Quarry, overlooking Egerton, Bolton. The pager call was answered by our Deputy Team Leader Chris Greenhalgh, who obtained further details of...
by admin | Aug 2, 2014 | Donations, General news
On Sunday 18th May 2014, for the second year of its running, the team provided standby rescue cover for the Darwen Leisure Centre Aquathon – Fell Run Section, held over a course taking in Darwen Moor and Jubilee Tower, starting and ending in the vicinity of the...
by admin | Aug 2, 2014 | General news, Training
This weekend our Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog Handler Steve Nelson, his Trailing Search Dog Boris, and Bolton MRT colleague team member Elaine Gilliland – who acts as Steve’s navigator (Both Steve and Elaine are members of SARDA Wales) are present at the NSARDA...
by admin | Jul 31, 2014 | General news
Happy birthday today to our venerable Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE (Vernon Garry Rhodes BA, Dip LA, CMLI Retired, MBE to give him his ‘Sunday best’ name) who has reached the grand age of 57, and having first joined the team in 1974 for a short period, re-joined again...
by admin | Jul 31, 2014 | General news
Regular readers will know that every year we provide standby rescue cover for the Belmont Primary School Winter Hill Sponsored Walk. Following our usual provision of standby rescue cover for this year’s walk held on Sunday 6th July, Team Call Out list member...
by admin | Jul 31, 2014 | Donations, General news
The team is very pleased to announce that Councillor Richard Silvester, Town Mayor of Horwich, has chosen Bolton MRT as one of his charities to support for his year in Office, which commenced on 15th May 2014. The membership of Bolton Mountain Rescue Team extends its...
by admin | Jul 30, 2014 | General news, Training
This warm and sunny evening saw our weekly training taking place at Blackleach Country Park, Hill Top, Walkden. (The location of a recent successful search incident on Saturday 21st June, incident 63/2014) Organised primarily by team member Martin Battersby (formerly...
by admin | Jul 30, 2014 | General news, Training
This morning and in to the early afternoon, two team members took part in an off road driver training session held at City Airport and Heliport Manchester (Barton) This excellent training was provided by four members of North West 4 x 4 Response, primarily for the...
